Audigy 2 zs notebook - no soundfont

# Hi,
I have Windows XP SP2 (also tried SP3 and Windows 7 with the same result).
When I install the original Audigy 2 ZS Notebook CD, soundfont playback (using the Soundfont Bank Manager) has terrible latency, probably 250 mSec or so. After I update drivers and applications using Creative's Autoupdate, I get no soundfont sound at all.
After the update, the Bank Manager showed no soundfonts loaded, so I tried reloading the soundfonts that were originally installed (CT2MGM.SF2, CT4MGM.SF2 and CT8MGM.SF2) - still no sound.
Additionally, I've downloaded Vienna 2.4 and starting it up gives me the error:
Sound font editing capability is currently being used by another application.
Quit the other application and try again.
This is a fresh XP Home installation with SP2 installed.
The the original Audigy CD, then Creative's updates.
help!

? A soundfont cannot contain alle drumkits, and it is not nessecary at all. I dont know a soundfont bank wich contains a complete set of drumkits, too. There are only some soundfonts like the crysis soundfont (to big for its "bad" quality) wich have some dummy-drumkits/ entrys or slightly modified sounds for each than usual. If all drumnkits would be stored in high-quality, the soundfont would be huge... Every synth i know uses the standard drumkit, if the chosen one is not existent. This is not optimal, but it will guarantee, that the the MIDI file or Program/ game will work. The KXDrivers wont do this. SO they are not useable for General MIDI. Only for MIDIs and soundfonts fitting together. But thats not the point of General MIDI. CMSS isnt working with these drivers, too. Dolby decoding/ encoding isnt possible with them, either. These drivers are not bad, but if you want a completely working card, KXdrivers are worthless.

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Thank you for the reply split0,
as for the informati've post, thank you for the compliment, i tend to not open a thread at all unless i have spent enough time on the problem and searched around enough for solutions, and after that i only post if it has enough info regarding everything in inside the thread.
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The PCMCIA adapter in my laptop is a Texas Instruments PCI-8x2/7x2/6x2 CardBus-controller.
Which is one of the most common controllers and should normally not cause any troubles at all, also in another thread on this forum i found a differant driver for it, i even tried that with no result sadly.
At the moment personally i am thinking the whole problem lies within not being able to uninstall the onboard sound card to full extent somehow, and while i posted here i also have all this info in a direct message sent to creative, and even acer for that matter.
In hopes of some kind of solution for this so i can keep my hopes up for not having to return the card itself.
What bugs me is that there is option at all to disable the onboard sound through the bios.
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